A glance at the French ingredients for the RRI

AlchemyHubs Meeting – Lisbon – 24th April 2015Malvina Artheau

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bThe french Hub : 5 Science Centers as Local Hubs to foster RRI

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bThe french Hub : 3 Examples of promising RRI practices

structure

Living Labs in Science Centers

approach

Creating partnerships with laboratories, engineering schools, social entrepreneurs and companies to launch responsible research projects

“ Funding research projects built upon partnership between researchers and citizens

“ Engaging everyone in technical and science innovations from the start

“PICRI

program

An example of ongoing partnership

Moti : toy for autistic children

An example of funded project

Online tool to understand law making

3 examples : 1 event, 2 projects

Experimenta, Nouvelle Page, Poppy

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First company in France

specialized in Responsible Innovation

EXPERTISE

Creating new research

partnerships between social entrepreneurs

and laboratories

CHANGE

Helping private and public sectors

to develop and achieve RI strategies

SUPPORT

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FranceCreating partnerships with laboratories, engineering schools, social entrepreneurs and major companies in order to launch responsible research projects

There is no medication for

autism

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FranceMoti : the first autonomous smart toy specifically designed for children with special needs

Hard to understand emotions

all data is

opensource

Get the data from Moti available for parents,

researchers and doctorsLeka is the start up developing

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doctors

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children

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fostering RI during all stages of development

Trouble processing

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PIC

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Partnerships between Institution &

Citizens for Research and Innovation

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115 projects funded

since the beginning of the

program

Involve

NGOs in

research

processes

Contribute to the

diversification of

research topics

Expand

dialogue

between the

“research

world” and

civil society

Aims

environment

handicapITC

culture

city policieshealth

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2005The Île de

France Region is

launching the

PICRI The Region is

funding and

organizing the

Picri

program .

Projects are selected by an independent committee

3 years

projects

social economy

The practice has spread

to 4 new regions

FranceFunding research projects built upon partnership between researchers and citizens

focus on strong societal topics

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2015115 funded

projects

1/3 of projects

completed

13 millions

euros invested

in the program

PhD student

studying the

first load of

completed

projects

PIC

RI

Partnerships between Institution &

Citizens for Research and Innovation

Choose a topic

Follow the discussions

Read the record of debates

Gave birth to a web site

Understand the chronology

 Centre d’Etudes européennes /

Sciences Po

Team

 Regards citoyens (NGO)

 Politecnico di Milano

Online dissemination of public data

Technological expertise

Research on participatory democracy

Aim Study the parliament’s amendment activity to quantify and qualify the institutions’ role in law making

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FranceAn online tool to make the parliament activity visible to all : http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr

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Science Centers can be hubs where researchers, innovators,

artists, citizen can think, debate and work together

They are in position to interrogate the merit of any innovation or research yet to come so that researchers and innovators can make their decisions in full awareness

Engaged together6 Science Centers in France

to re-evaluate their role

toward science and society

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FranceEngaging everyone in technical and science innovations from the start

A Science Center role is

to create spaces of

shared knowledge and

consciousness not only

for the public, but for

researchers and

business tooLivingLabs in Science

Centers should be more

than evaluation of

prototypes by end-users

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ExperimentaTransforming thecollaboration between researchers, business & artists into an event

Nouvelle PageExploring collectively new interactions between comic-books and digital technologies

Poppy Robot

©LaCasemate / Grenoble

©Relais

d’sciences/G.Dupuy / Caen

©Relais d’sciences/G.Dupuy / CaenCC by ScienceAnimation / Toulouse

CC by ScienceAnimation /

Toulouse

France

©LaCasemate /

Grenoble

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Building together an open source robot and discussing its potential uses

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PICRIstructure

Living Labs in Science Centers

approach

Funding

& Policy makers engagement

Citizen involvement

> Mentality change

program

RRI dedicated partners for researchers and business

Stronger

visibility Different levels of

engaged policy makers Facilitation of NGOs and

individuals engagement

in EU projects

Thank you

Hubs Meeting – Lisbon – 24th April 2015Malvina Artheau